Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver banners

[Dannwe123]

Here are some forum banners i made.
Feel free to use them, but give credit if you do.

My first banner ever.
Nothing special.

This one's pretty good.

Probably the best ones imo.

I tried to make some "clean" looking banners without so mutch crap in them.
Turned out ok i guess.

I just couldn't rezist making an Emerald banner.

Tell me what you think!

I made them with Photoshop cs2

 

[Lady Gaga]

I dont know why, but I can not see them :/

 

[Dannwe123]

I dont know why, but I can not see them :/

Really?
Then i should put them on Photobucket

Can u see them now?
i reuploaded 'em on pb

 

[BeachBoy]

Beautiful, but the problem? Wrong place. :D Graphics like these belong in Graphics & Photothisisalongwordgraphy.

Movin'~

 

[gigapoodle]

Those are pretty sweet. Love the HeartGold.

 

[Charizard★]

Those look awesome! lol :p

 

[Jαcκςση]

I would suggest not putting effects over you focals...

 

[Dannwe123]

Here's some new stuff:

Spoiler:

I also just learned how to make userbars:

Spoiler:

(Liquid Crystal is a hack by Linkandzelda and Zeikku)

 

[patch.]

I have to say, honestly, as a graphic-maker myself, these are pretty poor. A lot of it is just brush spam and then some text, and a lot of the renders are poorly placed, along with brushing over them. Additionally, the render is supposed to be the key focal point of any banner, meaning your eyes are supposed to focus on it. With almost every banner of yours, mine don't, and the text-only ones are very basic.

It's a good start, but it could be so much better.

 

[Dannwe123]

I have to say, honestly, as a graphic-maker myself, these are pretty poor. A lot of it is just brush spam and then some text, and a lot of the renders are poorly placed, along with brushing over them. Additionally, the render is supposed to be the key focal point of any banner, meaning your eyes are supposed to focus on it. With almost every banner of yours, mine don't, and the text-only ones are very basic.

It's a good start, but it could be so much better.

Thank you.
Finally some constructuve criticism

 

[Vriksha]

really they are great!
i likrdthe emerald one very much!!!

 

[the bitter end.]

I'm going to have to go with patch., these could all use some work. I see that you often block off your focal, which is not good. =| Try to soft erase around the focal when doing your tags, or put your effects on a whole other layer.

Similarly your typography could use work, firstly, don't make your text too big like in the one with the Cyndaquil, text background = no. Also, don't use blend effect on your text, I'd just keep the text how it is.

It's a good start though. (better than mine. 8'D) Try looking at some tutorials and such around PC or elsewhere, that's where I learned how to use my effects. Best of luck.